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Edge to Edge

New and Selected Poems

Peter Dale

Imprint: Anvil Press Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press
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Paperback (176 pages)
(Pub. Nov 1996)
9780856462726
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  • Edge to Edge brings together the best of Peter Dale’s original work from 1968 to the present. It is an impressive oeuvre which reveals Dale as a quintessentially English poet whose work is characterized by an intense depth of feeling, channeled and heightened by a sure control of form and metre.

    Peter Dale was born in Addleston, Surrey in 1938 and educated at St Peter’s College, Oxford. He worked as a secondary school teacher before becoming a freelance writer in 1993. He was co-editor of the poetry journal Agenda for many years. He is renowned for his translations from French (Corbière, Laforgue, ... read more
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